Afternoon tea

[Badger]

I pronounce it in the POSH way, not that I have to say it that often, my butler knows to put them with afternoon tea.

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

Peasant over 'ere too

Mind you, we don't pronounce 'bone' 'bon', do we?

 

[melias shoes]

Rhymes with gone unless you're posh, then it rhymes with own.

Turns out you're a little posher than your wife BG.

I say sc own and I'm far from posh.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

No only had butter and jam on them not cream. In fact we have them most days

Then that's high tea, no?

In terms of pronouciation, I think it can be either [or is that "eever"] but since cone is pronounced with an "own" ending, if you only put a S in front of cone they that should not change the "own" sounding end.

That said, drop the c from cone to leave "one" and that's pronouded "wun".

So, might it also be "scun" as well as "sc-own" with "sc-gone" a poor 3rd?

Oh, I'm so glad English is my first language - must be a mare for all the peeps to have to learn its idiosyncrasies ....

My fave:
One-one was a race horse,
two-one was one too,
one-one won one race
then two-one won one too.

 

[melias shoes]

Peasant over 'ere too

Mind you, we don't pronounce 'bone' 'bon', do we?

Or alone lon do we?

 

[TheJasperCo]

I pronounce it correctly: scOWN.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

It's odd, this. Where a word has a choice of pronunciations the one most widely seen as correct (or posh maybe) is usually the counter-intuitive one...

Mawlborough not Marleborough

Beckonsfield not Beaconsfield

Stroosbury not Shrewsbury

Oafham not Offham

Awlbourne not Albourne

But with Scone it seems to be the other way round.

 

[fire&skill]

http://youtu.be/-gz8BurL50k

 

[Luke93]

I say SChON, with a silent h.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm a Baron. I went through private education. I'm a qualified teacher. I pronounce it Sc-ons.

 

[Don Quixote]

Nether of you are correct, you can say it how you like.

 

[Willy Dangle]

I'm a Baron. I went through private education. I'm a qualified teacher. I pronounce it Sc-ons.

Baron Fun is correct as we had the same schooling. We both received a rather frightful punishment once for putting the ends of our dicks together. No fruit jello or creme freche involved in that little stunt was there my dear fellow.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Place just down the road from me in Perthshire was called Scone. Pronounced Scoon.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

Nether of you are correct, you can say it how you like.

"Neither of you is correct" ...and that's the only way you can say that.

 

[skipper734]

Place just down the road from me in Perthshire was called Scone. Pronounced Scoon.

So that where the Stoon of Scoon was sent back too. Cry babies!

 

[joeinbrighton]

I pronounce it as rhyming with gone.

 

[Petunia]

No only had butter and jam on them not cream. In fact we have them most days

Are you fat?

 

[BensGrandad]

Are you fat?

Was, but they are included on my weight watchers points. 7 points of my daily 45

 

[rcf0712]

It's an odd one for sure, I've always pronounced it scon and come from Hove yet a mate I worked with who comes from Leeds says it pronounced the "posh way" - nothing posh about Leeds. Aussies all seem to prefer the "posh" way too, go figure - seems it's one you go with what you fancy...

 

[BLOCK F]

I say sCONE, but then I did go to a very posh school.

So did I,but I pronounce it sCON.